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...using as a text a letter from Mr. Francis M. Weld '60. The scope of the letter was that Harvard should take some stand against professionalism, and after the letter had been read the subject was thrown open for discussion. Honore '88, moved that Harvard offer to Yale to form a dual league in football. The motion upon being seconded, was fully discussed by speakers from the floor, and Mr. Hooper '80, read two letters, one from Mr. Robert Bacon, of Boston, the other from Mr. Wetmore, of New York, both overseers. The writers of these letters state that they...
...American states constitute a convenient market for the United States and are our natural consumers. (a) The United States is nearer South America than the European markets, and South America would therefore trade with us on better terms. (b) All South American States are strongly inclined to a Republican form of goverment and therefore are more insympathy with our country than with monarchies, and commercial intercourse is natural...
...past two or three winters the floor has been lined with men watching the eleven practicing dropping on the ball and pursuing their other training. Of course it is gratifying to see so much interest evinced in the work of the team, but when this interest takes the form of hindering the men at their work, as in this case it does, it ought to be stopped. The passages are often so crowded that men wishing to go from one side of the hall to the other, find it impossible, and in spite of the fact that the crowd...
...meeting both interesting and instructive. It may be well to add, for the sake of those who are spending their first year at Cambridge, that the college conference meetings are managed entirely by the students, and that the topics and speakers are chosen by and for them alone. They form, therefore, or ought to form, just as much a feature of our college life as athletic contests or club meetings...
...Story of Boston, a Study of Independency, by Mr. Arthur Gilman, is the third of a series of histories of the Great Cities of the Republic. It is not exactly a history but as its title indicates, it presents in an interesting and not too minute a form the story of the early growth of the city. It is a study of the development of the free ideas, both civil and religious, with the innumerable conflicts between bigotry and tolerance, radicalism and conservatism, which have marked the history of Boston. The most interesting period was that just preceding the Revolution...